![]() When the sun rises on the dark land of Chup, it melts the shadows away. He uses a substance called Wishwater-given to him by Iff-to wish for the sun to rise. Haroun manages to help destroy the machinery that was going to plug the Wellspring. Khattam-Shud forbids free speech and has enacted a series of decrees called the Silence Laws, which forbid his people from speaking. Haroun learns that Khattam-Shud has a plan to plug the hole that produces the currents of stories. The Sea of Stories is under threat by an evil ruler, Khattam-Shud, whose name means “The End.” Iff travels with Haroun to Kahani, a fictional moon of earth that contains the Sea of Stories-the source of all stories and creativity. Rashid was a subscriber to a storytelling service, and Iff has disconnected it. ![]() That night, Haroun learns something disturbing-a water genie named Iff has taken his father’s storytelling gift. ![]() Shortly after, Rashid finds that he has run out of stories to tell. ![]() ![]() In the first chapter, Haroun’s mother leaves her husband for a man named Mr. Haroun’s father, Rashid, is a celebrated storyteller known for his ability to entertain, instruct, and persuade crowds on behalf of politicians. Haroun lives with his parents in a city that is so sad it no longer remembers its name. The novel begins with a young boy named Haroun Khalifa. ![]()
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